The Brazzers network has done hardcore spoofs of several big Hollywood sci-fi movies. They’re each about 30-40 minutes with one long sex scene. I’m liking the Brazzers style right now — good mix of camp and raunch, professional lighting and camerawork (sadly not always the case in porn). This X-Men spoof was just posted this month.

XXX-Men: The Hellfire Club (based on X-Men: First Class)
Starring Alexis Ford and Mick Blue

“There’s a secret society of X-Rated people living among us. They appear normal, but behind closed doors, their extreme sexual powers make them hornier than you can possibly imagine. Let nympho Alexis Ford take you on a tour of the Hellfire Club, and introduce you to a sexual world you never knew existed.” Fuck yeah, Emma Frost porn! Previews: flash clips and photo gallery.

Insextion (based on Inception)
Starring Juelz Ventura, Alexis Ford and Johnny Sins

“Alexis and Juelz are top-notch extractors and their next job, Johnny, comes with its share of obstacles. Johnny’s got the key to a fortune in his mind and the only way for the ladies to retrieve it is… you guessed it. Alexis takes the plunge and ventures deep into Johnny’s subconscious via shared dreaming. Does the ruse pay off? Find out in the cockbuster event of the year!” Suitcases filled with wires = special effects porno-style. Previews: flash clips and photo gallery.

I Am Cock (based on I Am Legend)
Starring Amy Ried and Keiran Lee

“The story of the last man on earth…with a huge cock! He’s the only survivor of a virus that has turned every woman on the planet into Big Cock Craving Zombies. He has the antidote in his sperm and will have to fuck them all, one by one, in order to turn them back into humans before they fuck him to death.” Note to self: add this one to the zombie porn list.

Splooger (based on Looper)
Starring Paige Delight and Danny D

“Danny has a special gift: he travels through time when he’s about to blow his load! When he comes all over his girlfriend’s face while she’s at work, completely out of nowhere, she knows some serious fucking is about to go down. He has to close the loop and shoot that splooge!” That makes just as much sense as Looper did. Previews: flash clips and photo gallery.

Deep Impact (based on Deep Impact)
Starring Brooklyn Blue and Danny D

“It’s the last day on earth, and the latest news report from ZZ News says that they are only 30 minutes left until the planet explodes. When Danny’s girlfriend asks him what he wants to do with his last half hour on earth, he tells her the truth: he wants to fuck her hot sister Brooklyn. Hey, it’s the end of the world, after all!” Some titles don’t require a porny pun cuz they already sound porny. Previews: flash clips and photo gallery.

Before he was a movie star, long before he was a politician, Arnold Schwarzenegger was a champion bodybuilder and star of the documentary Pumping Iron. He pumps a lot of iron, flexes his muscles and practices competition poses, smokes doobies and says things like “It’s as satisfying to me as coming is, you know? As having sex with a woman and coming. And so can you believe how much I am in heaven? I am getting the feeling of coming in a gym, I’m getting the feeling of coming at home, I’m getting the feeling of coming backstage when I pump up, when I pose in front of 5,000 people, I get the same feeling, so I am coming day and night.” It’s a seriously great movie.

White Ghetto’s latest sort of porn parody is This Isn’t Pumping Iron … It’s A XXX Spoof. Expect five or six sex scenes featuring muscular women, perhaps having sex on or around exercise equipment. Don’t expect much plot or parody content beyond the box cover.

Back in 1986, Henri Pachard directed the porn parody Pumping Flesh. Erica Boyer played a pornstar who “inherits a posh bodybuilding club in San Francisco” and institutes some creative new workout programs.

Dig the tagline: “Straining, Bulging, Glistening Muscles Made For Love!”

The fine 1980s cast includes Danielle, Lois Ayres, Nina Hartley, Wendi Wood, Joey Silvera, John Leslie and Paul Thomas.

Superhero porn parodies have been all the rage over the past few years, bumpdrafting the mainstream Hollywood superhero craze. But the history of super-powered smut goes back much further. PornParody.com’s crack research team recently stumbled across an old series featuring XXX superheroes Blackman and Anal Woman.

In 1989, the year of the first Michael Keaton Batman movie, Pleasure Productions came out with Blackman. It starred Ray Victory in the title role, cruising Bay City in the BlackMobile and keeping the citizenry safe and satisfied. Also starring Jamie Gillis (as villain “the Poker”), Cherelle Marie, Ebony Ayres (aka Ebony Ayes), Jeannie Pepper, Purple Passion, Shantele and Sean Michaels. Tagline: “He’s Blacker Than Night and Longer Than Day!”

Blackman – 1989 porn parody of Batman

In 1990, the same studio followed up with sequel Anal Woman. Susan Vegas played the title heroine (that’s her on the box cover, at least), and Ray Victory returned as Blackman. Also starring Bionca, Jeannie Pepper and Mia Powers. Tagline: “Holy Backdoor Entry, Blackman!”

Anal Woman – 1990 superheroine porn

Later in 1990, the series continued with The Erotic Adventures of Blackman & Anal Woman. Ray Victory was still Blackman, also starring Angel Kelly, Chantel Lane, Jeannie Pepper, Mia Powers and Rachel Ryan. The box cover shows Kelly and Powers reaching for Victory’s super-package; it’s not clear which one is supposed to be Anal Woman. Since Jeannie Pepper was the only actress in all three films, maybe she’s Anal Woman. Maybe I’m overthinking this. Tagline: “He’s Black, Back and On the Attack! She’s Sweet, Neat and Indiscreet!”

Erotic Adventures of Blackman & Anal Woman

The series continued with King Tung Meets Anal Woman (1990), Anal Woman 2 (1993) and Anal Woman 3 (1995), none of which circulate nowadays.

This box cover confused me.

At first I thought “Cinderella: the lost footage” was the name of the movie. But then “Hawaii Vice” also looked like the name of the movie. OK, I figured it out soon enough. Cinderella Classics is the releasing company, and “the lost footage” is the name of its retro-reissue series.

Hawaii Vice (1988) starred real-life Hawaiian-born porn star Kascha. Her IAFD entry includes this tidbit: “She was billed as being of mixed descent (half Chinese and half Swedish), and was known for her East Asian features and contrasting blonde hair. Contrary to popular belief, Kascha had little or no European heritage and was of primarily Asian ancestry.” Sneaky porno fucks.

Ron Jeremy directed the film and co-starred. Also starring Bionca, Jade East, Nina DePonca, Stephanie Rage, Peter North and Francois Papillon (that’s him on the box cover looking like Don Johnson’s meathead brother).

Hawaii Vice 2: The Deadly Game came out the same year with mostly the same cast.

They made six more of these, all released in 1989, all with Kascha and Francois Papillon.

Hawaii Vice 3: Beyond The Badge
Hawaii Vice 4: Soft Shoulders and Dangerous Curves
Hawaii Vice 5: Sky’s The Limit
Hawaii Vice 6: Kiss Me Kill Me
Hawaii Vice 7: Thin Blue Line
Hawaii Vice 8: The Solution

Sadly, none of #3 through #8 have gotten official reissues. Hey Cinderella, how about a box set?

There have been many King Arthur movies over the years. If you don’t count the Monte Python version, the best is clearly John Boorman’s 1981 Excalibur.

In 2007-2008, French pornographer Pierre Woodman produced a stylish three-part adaptation called Xcalibur: The Lords of Sex. Everyone loves big fantasy trilogies with shiny armor, magic and a zillion characters, so of course it was a big hit.

Film one, Xcalibur: The Lords of Sex, launched a “colossal, cockbusting costume epic … a tale of intrigue, romance and red-hot hardcore action … Arthurian legend with an anal twist”.

A few months later, Woodman followed with Xcalibur: The Lords of Sex 2 with more epic romping in candlelit dungeon sets.

The hot RenFaire action concluded in Xcalibur: The Lords Of Sex 3, billed as the “sizzling story of wanton wenches, swords in stone and knights who ‘Cumalot’!” (get it? Camelot, cum a lot? oy).

In true bloated fantasy trilogy fashion, the three Xcalibur films totalled 8½ hours and 26 sex scenes.

The combined cast includes Caylian Curtis, Divinity Love, Theodora Ferreri, Anita Slager, Cynthia Mouri, Boroka Bolls, Vanessa Bliss, Kevin Long, Alain Deloin, Lara Stevens, Bob Terminator, Reda, Nikki Sun, Janet Joy, Nataly DiAngelo, Carla Cox, Igor, Marcel, Radka, Vito Corleone, Stephanie Sierra, Mona Lee, Roger Venturini, Terenka, Eufrat Tenka, Jasmina, Sloan, Teo, Michael Cheritto, Silvia Saint, Zafira Blunchen, Cage, Martin Gun, Lilly Ramon, Kety Bleins, Suzan Wenera, Yulia Bright, Charlie Parker, Nesty, James Brossman, George Uhl, Joe Monti, Lauro Giotto, Vanessa Smoke, Wein Lewis, Roxanne Keys, Veronika da Souza, Roxy Panther, Thomas Crown, Wildy, Katka Redil, Rudboy, Petra Stingrey, Morgan Moon, Erik Devil, Kristi Klenot, Victor Solo, Jean Val Jean, Kathy Anderson, Sebastian Barrio, Denis Marti, Karel Novak, Claudia Adams, Sabrina White, George Reno, Sunny Jay, Titof, Matt Bird and Marsha Lord.

Brazzers has produced a multi-part Jason Bourne/James Bond international superspy porn parody series over the last few years. Brazzers contract woodsman Danny D plays lead role “Jason Blaine” throughout. We’re not sure if they’re done yet, but here’s the story so far.

Spy Hard
Ivana Givehead (played by Honey Demon) plans on detonating bombs all over London and only special agent Jason Blaine can stop her. Getting passed her guards and security will be the easy part….getting the detonation codes the hard part. He’ll just have to put all his training and huge cock to work on her tight little asshole. The fate of England rests on his load.
trailer | video clip | 15 photos

The name “Jason Blaine” echos “Jason Bourne”, but the details here seem more James Bond — the tuxedo, the casino setting, “the fate of England”. And the sexy henchwoman’s name in part 2 also riffs on a famous Bond villain henchman.

Spy Hard 2
Agent Jason Blaine is back in another dick smacking, tit fucking adventure. When a special arms dealer is poised to distribute his goods to terrorist cells around the world, it’s up to Blaine to stop him. But first, he must contend with the dealer’s buxom sidekick, HandJob (played by Anastasia Brill), before he can defuse the situation.
trailer | video clip | 15 photos

Spy Hard 3: Hit Girl
In the thrilling third entry of the Spy Hard series, this time we find our hero, agent Jason Blaine, being held by some mobsters looking to get information out of him by any means necessary. Fortunately for him, Danny’s owed a favor from the deadliest busty assassin in the world: Aletta Ocean! In her secret identity as a slutty schoolgirl, Aletta was busy in class at the St Brazzers Hall boarding school when she got the call to action from our hero the big dicked secret agent. Aletta came to his rescue, quickly dispatching all of his captors with the kind of finesse only a true martial arts master could manage. To repay her kindness, Danny gives her a piece of his fat cock, fucking her pretty face, her beautiful big tits, and of course her tight pussy before giving her a huge facial and sending her back to class.
trailer | video clip | 15 photos

Not surprisingly, there have been a bunch of James Bond porn parodies over the years. The only other Jason Bourne porn parodies we know of are the gay XXX series The Porne Identity and The Porne Ultimatum.

The Blair Witch Project was a mindboggling success in the summer of 1999. Made for less than $100,000, it ended up grossing $250 million. Fifteen years later, the Hollywood studios and wannabes and film students continue mimicking its formula.

Not surprisingly, there have been many porn parodies over the years. Among the first was The Morgan Sex Project, released by Wicked in fall of 1999, directed by and starring Jonathan Morgan.

The premise: Morgan and friends (fellow pornstars T.J. Hart, Alexa Rae, Leanni Lei, Ian Daniels, Brad Armstrong) hop in an RV and go have sex in the woods. Sometimes they just have sex in the RV.

Apparently it was popular, because Morgan and Wicked churned out five sequels in 2000-2001.

The Morgan Sex Project 2 added Amber Michaels, Sydnee Steele, April Flowers and Evan Stone for another RV road trip. This time they didn’t even bother having sex outdoors and just stayed in the RV.

The Morgan Sex Project 3 added Ryan Conner, Rachel Moore and Lola Vargas for vacation sex on a boat and on the beach, which frankly sounds much more fun than the RV in the woods.

The Morgan Sex Project 4 added Alexandra Quinn, Kelsey Heart, Friday and Randy Spears. This time Morgan and friends supposedly “take to the slopes” for some skiing, though the sex scenes all took place in the RV (which must have been starting to smell a bit funky at this point) or a cheap motel room.

For The Morgan Sex Project 5 and The Morgan Sex Project 6, Inari Vachs, Jenna Haze, Sydnee Steele, Kaylynn, Krystal Steal and the guys went on vacation in Hawaii. For the final installment, they shot a sex scene in green-tinted night vision as tribute to the original Blair Witch Project.

In 2001, piggybacking on the godawful Tim Burton Planet of the Apes remake, Jim Powers directed the far superior porn parody Planet of the Babes.

The Powers version follows the original plot exactly: three astronauts land on a mysterious planet where intelligent apes enslave stone age humans.

The original DVD box cover looks styling, though I also dig this simpler Russian box:

The cast includes Asia Carrera, Bridgette Kerkove, Gwen Summers, Flick Shagwell, Lola Vargas, Steven St. Croix, Mickey G., Dave Hardman and Nick East. As you can see, they put some real effort into the sets …

… and costumes:

Alas, the sex scenes in Planet of the Babes are strictly human-on-human. In other words, the pornstars wearing the Halloween ape masks keep their clothes on.

Tom Byron directed a Planet of the Gapes series for Extreme Associates between 1998 and 2001, but there was no parody content beyond the title pun.

With the new Planet of the Apes series rising and dawning in Hollywood, it’s definitely time for a fresh porn parody. And for fuck’s sake, let the apes have some fun this time around.

Are you ready for some football smut?

Back in 1997 director Jim Powers, master of gonzo and parody alike, got fans ready with the all-girl football flick San Francisco 69’ers. Blurb: “It’s first down on the 69-yard line and 90 minutes left on the clock!” Close enough.

The roster included Heaven Leigh, Shawna Edwards, Shelbee Myne, Katie Gold, Caressa Savage, Candy Hill and Brooke Ashley.

In 1998, Powers and company followed up with San Francisco 69’ers vs the Green Bay Ass Packers

The cast this time around included Allysin Chaynes, Alyssa Allure, Doomy Moore, Gina Ryder, Gwen Summers, Inari Vachs, Raquel Devine, Regan Starr and Vanity Irons.

With 30 more NFL team names ripe for dirty puns, this series could have continued for a long time. Alas, that legendary SF-GB matchup was the last hurrah.

The last four years has been the Golden Age of superhero porn parody. Pornographers have methodically worked their way through the DC and Marvel canon, and every Hollywood superhero blockbuster has spawned at least one XXX knockoff.

The genre goes back a long way, of course. Charlie Jane Anders traced “the Bizarre History of Superhero Porn” at io9 a couple years ago, starting with Tijuana bibles from the 1940s featuring Superman and Plasticman. She also included kinky underground comics from later decades.

The first superhero porn parody feature film appears to be Bat Pussy (1973).

Bat Pussy is an incredibly strange film. It has achieved cult status as “the worst adult movie of all time” among ironic bad cinema aficionados, renowned for its technical ineptness and anti-eroticism. You can read appreciations at AV Maniacs, Movies About Girls, Radiation-Scarred Reviews, Vault of Buncheness and more AV Maniacs. If you enjoy watching bizarro “how did this ever get made?” terrible movies, you’ll enjoy Bat Pussy. Otherwise, it’s really just terrible.

The film opens with a long scene of Buddy and Sam getting busy in a dingy cabin set. Even by the looser standards of 1970s porn, Buddy and Sam are physically unappealing specimens. Ratcheting down the eroticism further, they spend most of their time bickering and trading insults. Something Weird’s blurb captures the vibe: “When their mouths aren’t busy chewing on the lower portion of each other’s anatomy, they are babbling away at one another like two escaped mental patients. … Snappy lines include: ‘You wouldn’t know how to eat someone if you were doing your grandmother’ and ‘My horoscope says I’m gonna fuck you in the nose.'”

Eventually we cut to “Bat Pussy Headquarters”, where Dora senses a crime being committed, changes into her Bat Pussy costume, then travels across Gotham City on a rubber Hoppity Hop ball.

Bat Pussy finds Buddy and Sam in bed with a camera and accuses the couple of shooting an illegal porno flick. Then Bat Pussy abandons crimefighting, strips naked and joins Buddy and Sam for a threesome.

And that’s pretty much it.

The identities of the filmmakers and stars remain a mystery. Surviving prints have no credits. The actors all sport thick deep South accents, providing the only real clue as to where it was made. Something Weird Video salvaged Bat Pussy and released it on VHS, then DVD, now download.

There might have been earlier superhero smut on film. We can’t reliably call anything the “first” this or that, since so much porn and sexploitation was disposable and undocumented. But as far as we know, the genre began with Bat Pussy.

Researching a project on superhero porn, I recently stumbled across this oddity: Bathman dal pianeta Eros, a very silly 1982 Batman porn parody made in Italy. The title translates to Bathman from Planet Eros.

Mark Shannon in the lead role wears the classic Adam West Batman costume, except his cowl and gloves are a brighter shade of blue.

The filmmakers take major liberties with the Batman legend. For one thing, Bathman comes from outer space here, from the planet Eros. And instead of a young male ward/sidekick, Bathman has a girlfriend named Klito Bell, secret identity of Bathbaby, who also hails from Planet Eros.

The alien heroes have gotten lazy and let their crimefighting slide, allowing gangs led by Penguin, Joker and Catwoman to run wild in Gotham.

The masters of planet Eros send a robot to Earth to whip Bathman and Bathbaby back into shape. (This guy reminds me of the Great Gazoo.)

The robot’s ingenious plan involves inviting all the heroes and criminals to a giant orgy. That works, and peace returns to Gotham.

For whatever reason, a recent DVD reissue changed the awesome original title to the boring, less descriptive Klito Bell. Sadly, this film is not currently available on Region 1 DVD, and none of our VoD affiliates have it. Unofficial copies of varying quality are around if you look. A few nudity-free minutes are available on YouTube:

Seduction Cinema has been making campy softcore porn parodies since the 1990s. Their movies show up overnight on pay cable channels sometimes, though IMHO they’re much more fun than the usual Skinemax fare. They’ve done superhero films, fantasy epics, all manner of horror films, knockoffs of recent Hollywood blockbusters, all mostly an excuse for lots of full-frontal nudity and silliness. Their breakout star was dreamy redhead pixie Misty Mundae. (In case it’s not obvious, I’m a fan.)

To celebrate Halloween season, we present a guide to the vampire films of Misty Mundae.

Vampire Strangler (1999)

Why would a vampire need to strangle anyone? Vampire Strangler is a supercheap, witless, technically incompetent porn flick. It’s remembered today solely for Misty Mundae’s first and only hardcore scene, some oral sex with costar/director/then-boyfriend William Hellfire. Mundae made a dozen more films with Hellfire over the next few years, all softcore with simulated sex except for that one scene.

If Vampire Strangler sounds like something you absolutely must have, Factory 2000 recently released a special two-DVD collector’s edition.

My Vampire Lover (2002)

By 2001, Misty Mundae moved to Seduction Cinema and quickly became a cult star. Early on she played the role of “Catholic schoolgirl” in My Vampire Lover, which was later re-issued under the title K-Sex: Lesbians from a Different Planet. This film is virtually plotless girl-girl softcore from start to finish, so it doesn’t really matter whether the lesbians are supposed to be vampires or aliens.

An Erotic Vampire in Paris (2002)

Misty Mundae starred in An Erotic Vampire in Paris as an innocent American girl, paired with Tina Krause as a jaded, predatory creature of the night. The film is basically a series of long Mundae/Krause forbidden love scenes. William Hellfire has a small role, and Mundae and Hellfire collaborated on soundtrack song “Every Baby Needs a Da Da Daddy”.

Vampire Vixens (2003)

The following year, Misty Mundae starred in Vampire Vixens. This was ostensibly a sequel to Seduction Cinema’s The Vampire’s Seduction from 1998, well before Mundae joined the studio. Trust me, you won’t have any trouble following the plot here even if you missed the original.

The Sexy Adventures of Van Helsing (2004)

Though not listed on the box cover, Misty Mundae has a small role in this Seduction Cinema knockoff of Van Helsing. She’s one of the naked vampire minions in scene one.

Lust for Dracula (2005)

Misty Mundae plays Mina Harker battling Darian Caine as Dracula in this modern-day adaptation. Can she keep the horny immortal occupied until daybreak?

If softcore leaves you cold, you’ll probably find all this pointless. But if Misty Mundae makes you swoon, these are all must-see masterpieces.

Burning Angel has a history of celebrating Halloween with horror porn spoofs. This year they released two of their classics together on DVD and video-on-demand, The Craft XXX and Dong of the Dead.

Both of these originally appeared at BurningAngel.com a few years back. Until now, that has been the only place to see them. They posted a SFW trailer for The Craft XXX (then called The Shaft, though The Craft XXX is really a better title) at YouTube in October 2010.

In the same spirit, they gave us The Walking Dead XXX in 2013. Some free promo vids: clip one, clip two, clip three, clip four, the making of.

The year before, their big Halloween flick was Fuckenstein: clip one, clip two, clip three, whole film.

Heading even further back into the Burning Angel parody archives, we find Evil Head spoofing Evil Dead … in 2006, Joanna Angel played the Linda Blair role in The XXXorcist … and one of the studio’s very first releases back in 2005, Re-Penetrator.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 comes out this weekend, the third of four planned movies based on the dystopian young adult novel trilogy.

And for whatever reason, the porn industry has once again failed to tag along with a Hunger Games porn parody.

What the hell is wrong with these people?

The first two movies both topped $400 million in North American box office. The third movie will probably do the same.

Recent events suggest there’s a huge audience out there eager to see Katniss naked.

And the plot premise of the Hunger Games series just cries out for XXX reinterpretation. A bunch of cute, athletic teenagers from the sticks exploited by decadent, jaded big-city scumbags for scuzzy entertainment value — that sounds a lot like, well, the porn industry. Dump the violent fight-to-the-death angle, replace it with lots of sex, voila.

There have been a few Hunger Games-themed porno titles, but these have mostly been cheapo releases with no real parody content beyond the title puns and box covers:

This Isn’t The Hunger Games — It’s A XXX Spoof (White Ghetto, 2012)
The Younger Games (Zero Tolerance, 2012)
The Hunger Sex Games (Filmco, 2012 – compilation)
BBW Hunger Games (Totally Tasteless, 2014 – compilation)

None of these count in our book. We demand a proper Hunger Games porn parody with Katniss, Peeta, Gale, Haymitch, Effie, Rue, etc (all aged up to 18+, of course) and some attempt to mimic the visual look of the movies. There will be one more Hollywood movie in November 2015, plenty of time for Axel Braun or Lee Roy Myers or someone to step up.

The fine folks at Alpha Blue Archives continue to seek out, restore and reissue early porn that would otherwise be lost to the ages.

Their latest discovery is The Godmother, a long-lost 1972 porn parody of The Godfather.

The film stars Tina Smith (“whose heavy tits defy the laws of gravity!” according to Alpha Blue’s breathless copywriter; left on the poster) and Ann Ali (“voluptuous print model” of Indian-American ethnicity; right on the poster) as streetwise badass babes who team up to take revenge on the drug dealer who killed their friend.

The Alpha Blue Archives release also includes four other films of varying lengths.

The Tattooed Lady (1977, 36 minutes), starring Tina Smith and Christine De Schaffer.

All American Hustler (1976, 65 minutes), also starring Tina Smith. Alpha Blue calls this one “classic downbeat XXX psycho-erotica”.

Big Breast Orgy and Big Breast Orgy 2 (1972, total 24 minutes) starring Candy Samples, Ann Ali, Tina Smith, Uschi Digard, Marsha Jordan, Keli Stewart. “Absolutely GORGEOUS new digitally re-mastered upgrade to the all-time-classic big-tit loops transferred from the original negatives!”

The Godmother Plus The Lost Films Of Ann Ali and Tina Smith is available on DVD, streaming and download at GameLink.

The megahyped N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton opens today. A “Where Are They Now?” piece at Hollywood Reporter coldly points out that Dr Dre and Ice Cube both have nine-figure net worths today while MC Ren and DJ Yella, well, do not. This piece also includes a factoid that was news to me: that DJ Yella “found a second career in porn” after NWA ended and his first solo record flopped.

He was primarily a producer and studio owner, but according to his IAFD page, DJ Yella directed twenty-odd porn titles between 2001 and 2005. Many of the box covers hyped Yella’s past as a member of N.W.A., sometimes featuring photos of Yella holding a camera, sometimes using tie-in taglines like “Straight Off the Streets of Compton!”.

Then in 2009, Black Market Entertainment (which might or might not have been one of Yella’s labels) released a compilation of his old scenes under the parody-like title H.W.A.: Ho’s Wit Attitude and a box cover spoofing the iconic album cover of Straight Outta Compton.

A followup compilation later that year, H.W.A. #2: Ho’s Wit Attitude sported a more conventional box cover with a small corner photo of Yella holding a camera.

Who said there are no second acts in American lives?